Leave it to CA liberals to ban plastic bags and mandate plastic gloves.
This is a pernicious law, written by people not informed or familier in the industry. I suppose that that is almost always true, isn’t it?
I wonder if they will require gloves at gay bath houses.
They take your dirty money with the same hands that fixed your food.
It's not like the gloves are magically germ free. Once contaminated everything they tough is contaminated. It realville, it's probably WORSE than bare hands because when your hands get dirty you might consider washing them but no one washes the gloves and this guy at least didn't change them at all.
Then, once they have gloves on, they are probably less likely to wash or rinse their hands between steps in food preparation, since their hands won’t feel dirty or sticky. This would seem to make them more likely to cross-contaminate food items or utensils than with no gloves.
In Virginia, you are required to scrub your hands before you apply plastic gloves, then again after you remove them. I don’t know what the laws are elsewhere. I’m surprised it took so long for this law to make it to California.
Wong is wight.
I wonder what Jon Taffer would say about that.
Stupid law. You can’t cook with gloves on!
The kids at burger-doodle wearing gloves aren’t ‘cooking’, they just assemble things.
‘Had Enough Yet
But wait...Draft of California bill would mandate porn stars wear protective eyewear like goggles during filming
First it was mandatory condoms. Now lawmakers want to make porn stars don more gear to keep them safe from infection from bodily fluids. If an updated draft of Bill AB 640 goes into effect eye protection would be required during filming sex scenes, according to the proposed legislation.
I’m against this. Instead of washing their hands, food handlers will just leave the gloves on all the time, regardless of what they are doing. That’s been my observation, at any rate.
Anyone know the waiter with a spoon in his pocket joke?
The Waiter and the Spoon
I took some friends out to dinner last week, and I noticed a spoon in the shirt pocket of our waiter as he handed us the menus. It seemed a little odd, but I dismissed it as a random thing. Until our busboy came with water & tableware; he, too, sported a spoon in his breast-pocket. I looked around the room and all the waiters, waitresses, busboys, etc. had spoons in their pockets.
When our waiter returned to take our order, I just had to ask, “Why the
spoons?”
“Well,” he explained, “our parent company recently hired some Andersen Consulting efficiency experts to review all our procedures and after months of statistical analyses, they concluded that our patrons drop spoons on the floor 73% more often than any other utensil at a frequency of 3 spoons per hour per workstation. By preparing all our workers for this contingency in advance, we can cut our trips to the kitchen down and save time...nearly 1.5 extra man hours per shift.”
Just as he concluded, a “ch-ching” came from the table behind him, and he quickly replaced a fallen spoon with the one from his pocket. “I’ll grab another spoon the next time I’m in the kitchen instead of making a special trip,” he proudly explained.
I was impressed. “Thanks. I had to ask.” “No problem,” he answered, then he continued to take our orders. As the members of my dinner party took their turns, my eyes darted back & forth from each person ordering and my menu. That’s when, out of the corner of my eye, I spotted a thin, black thread protruding from our waiter’s fly. Again, I dismissed it; yet I had to scan the room and, sure enough, there were other waiters & busboys with strings hanging out there were other waiters & busboys with strings hanging out of their trousers.
My curiosity overrode discretion at this point, so before he could leave I had to ask. “Excuse me, but...uh...why, or what...about that string?” “Oh, yeah,” he began in a quieter tone. “Not many people are that observant. That same efficiency group found we could save time in the Men’s room, too.” “How’s that?” .. “You see, by tying a string to the end of our, eh, selves, we can pull it out at the urinals literally hands-free and thereby eliminate the need to wash our hands, cutting time spent in the restroom by over 93%!”
“Oh, that makes sense,” I said, but then thinking thru the process, I asked, “Hey, wait-a-minute. If the string helps you pull it out, how do you get it back in?”
“Well,” he whispered, “I don’t know about the other guys; but I use my spoon.
Ridiculous law. As long as a food=preparer washes their hands thoroughly, there is nothing to worry about.
What is really sad is the fact that many people, paid by the taxpayers, took *our* time to actually write this law. I wonder how much it cost?
These types run the country folks!!
so how often are they required to change gloves?
Pretty soon it will be illegal to prepare food anywhere and in any way. Then we will all die and the Commies will get their way.
I’m going to go out on a limb and make the assumption that the demographic in question e.g. California chefs, largely voted for hope and change.